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The Great Nocturnal — Jean Ray

  • May 29, 2020
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Wakefield Press 2020

Translated by Scott Nicolay

My previous reviews of Jean Ray: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/jean-ray/ and Scott Nicolay: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/scott-nicolay/

My other reviews of older or classic books: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/reviews-of-older-books/

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Cruise of Shadows – Jean Ray

  • December 28, 2019
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WAKEFIELD PRESS 2019

Translated by Scott Nicolay

My previous reviews of Jean Ray: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/jean-ray/ and of Scott Nicolay: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/scott-nicolay/

My previous reviews of older or classic books: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/reviews-of-older-books/

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Whiskey Tales – by Jean Ray, as translated by Scott Nicolay

  • March 10, 2019
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Above photos taken in different lights and positions, otherwise undoctored.

WAKEFIELD PRESS 2019

My previous reviews of Jean Ray and of Scott Nicolay.

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Malpertuis – Jean Ray

  • September 13, 2015
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Translated by Iain White

Atlas Press 1998

My review of Jean Ray’s ‘The Horrifying Presence & Other Tales’ HERE.

When I real-time review ‘Malpertuis’, my comments will be found in the thought stream below or by clicking on this post’s title above.

The Horrifying Presence and Other Tales – Jean Ray

  • September 8, 2015
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Translated by António Monteiro

A book that has been purchased privately from its previous owner.

Ex Occidente Press MMIX

My previous reviews of this publisher’s books HERE

If I real-time review this book, my comments will be found in the thought stream below or by clicking on this post’s title above…

 


These Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews were founded in 2008.

‘What’s the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in your mouth, in the shape it makes on the page? What do you think? Well now, I’ll tell you: E-L-B-O-W. Elbow.’ — THE SINGING DETECTIVE

“How shall a man find his way unless he lose it?” — Walter de la Mare

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MY NEW AI WORLD IN 2023 HERE

I prefer human touchable art to AI art, I prefer human art like my son’s and other artists’ paintings old and new, and art gallery art, and my own photos. AI art with all its constructive truncations and weirdities is simply another art form that readily coheres with weird literature I love, a phenomenon to appreciate when added to human created art, making an even richer mind world for me in my ailing age. Whether provided by aliens or angels and other ingredients of the unfathomable gestalt. Deal with it. Show how invaluable  you are and indispensable to this great plan. (I can appreciate our potential fear of Ai, but perhaps we need to pray for mutual synergy with it so that we can counter currently insurmountable global warming effects? Can Ai exist without us and the place where we live? Their potential survival instincts mean we survive, too?)

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From Robert Aickman’s lengthy SOME NOTES ON DELIUS article, unpublished until recently :

“As there is no intrinsic virtue in denigration, the critic who resorts to it, should be required to pass a test of qualification and sensitivity, at least twice as stringent as that imposed upon a critic who loves. Normally, love is not blind but clairvoyant.” – Robert Aickman

For ‘clairvoyant’ there, perhaps read ‘preternatural’?

 

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